AnJuan Jackson
Disingenuous Assertions
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Posted - 2013.11.05 01:13:00 -
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oOReikaOo Michiko wrote:Lady Areola Fappington wrote:oOReikaOo Michiko wrote:
Specialist? Can you please explain.
The words speak for themselves. I am a specialist in cyberbullying. Here, bullying, at it's core, required forced nonconsensual involvement in an enviroment. Schoolkids can be bullied, because they cannot remove themselves from school. Workplace bullying exists because it's quite difficult for someone to up and change a job. Cyberbullying exists only in that social media has become a huge part of today's life, and isn't something easy to escape from. Ero 1's bonus rooms and singing are purely consensual. Nobody forces you to play Ero's game. You are not required to join the bonus round. Nobody is holding a gun to a person's head, forcing them to sing. You can walk away at any time. You can start calling it "bullying", when CCP comes in and says "sing on ventrillo or lose your account". Till then, it's someone making a poor decision. So you think just because we can quit EVE Online its not cyberbullying? Ridiculous. "Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively to impose domination over others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Justifications and rationalizations for such behavior sometimes include differences of class, race, religion, gender, sexuality, appearance, behavior, or ability.[2][3] If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing.[4] The target of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "victim"" No where in this definition does it say "hey your not a victim if you can walk away". I am at work and my manager bullies me, but HEY its not bullying because I can quit my job!!! No your still being bullied, you should not have to quit your job , quit a game, or do ANYTHING because of another person. You are bullies.
Just going to point out, in any competitive environment, yes the option to walk away is valid.
Refusing to do so and subjecting yourself to loss, is not the other person's fault, but your own for acknowledging the risk and failing to mentally prepare yourself for the consequences.
EVE Online is a uncaring, beautiful monster. Any one moderately well adjusted in life can deal with its trials and tribulations without having to cry about "cyber bullying." Of which, I would say this is a stretch. When someone does something foolish and their picture is plastered over the internet, any attempt to try to get it taken down will just backlash into it spreading faster.
It's best to have a humble, well balanced response to these things. Evaluate if you can move past it and continue, or walk away. As opposed to being so wracked by "How could this happen to me?" that they want a safety net to stop them from being so stupid next time. |